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Governor Kevin Stitt announced the launch of Supply Chain Oklahoma (SCO), an effort to provide critical resources to Oklahoma manufacturers.
The first key piece of the initiative to be rolled out is “Connex Oklahoma,” a new, free online database tool developed by the Oklahoma Manufacturing Alliance (OMA) in partnership with the Oklahom...
Plans are underway for roughly a $4.7 million townhome project called Black Wall Street Square in Tulsa.
At a virtual meeting Thursday, the Tulsa Development Authority voted to negotiate a redevelopment agreement with the Tulsa developers of the project: McGee Enterprises Inc. and Boomtown Development Co., an affiliate of Green Countr...
The Oklahoma Department of Commerce (Commerce) recently launched its Economic Development Project Portal in order to provide Oklahoma communities with increased access to requests for proposals (RFPs) for economic development project opportunities.
This effort is a result of a new comprehensive program undertaken by Commerce that focuses on community-level economic developmen...
Oklahoma Ranks No. 7 for Lowest Tax Burden
Mar 31 2021WalletHub released its 2021 Tax Burden by State findings. To determine the residents with the biggest tax burdens, WalletHub compared the 50 states across the three tax types of state tax burdens — property taxes, individual income taxes and sales and excise taxes — as a share of total personal incom...
New Reasor's, retail, part of $40 million mixed-use development in south Broken Arrow near Creek Turnpike
Mar 29 2021BROKEN ARROW — Area grocery chain Reasor’s will build a 60,000-square-foot store that will anchor a $40 million mixed-used development planned on city-owned property.
Spearheading the project, to be located near 5601 S. Aspen (145th East Avenue) just north of the Creek Turnpike, is OakTrust Development, which also plans to buil...
36 Degrees North reports $375.5 million economic impact on regional economy over last 4 years
Mar 22 2021Abasecamp for entrepreneurs, 36 Degrees North on Monday reported it has had a $375.5 million economic impact on the Tulsa region in the last four years.
36 Degrees North on Monday released its economic impact report, “showcasing the effect of the organization and its programs on the Tulsa regional economy,” i...
Arthur Jackson, senior vice president of economic development for the Tulsa Regional Chamber, has been named a 2021 Economic Development 40 Under 40 Award recipient by Development Counsellors International (DCI) and Jorgenson Consulting. The biennial award program recognizes rising stars in the economic development industry.
“Arthur has had great success a...
The website MoneyGeek.com has ranked 303 U.S. cities with a population of 100,000 or more according to how safe they are, and Broken Arrow nearly cracked the top ten, coming in at number 11.
That’s in stark contrast to nearby Tulsa, which ranked a woeful 269 in the study.
Interestingly, the sit...
Cathedrals of Talent
Mar 10 2021Does tech investment follow tech talent or the other way around? It’s actually some of both.
The question going forward, says Colin Yasukochi, executive director of the Tech Insights Center at CBRE, is the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic could upset longstanding equations and trends as 2021 unfolds into th...
Watch Now: MidAmerica Industrial Park flexes manufacturing might with retail, residential expansion
Mar 9 2021PRYOR — With face-to-face interaction largely suspended by COVID-19, MidAmerica Industrial Park needed to new way to attract tenants.
So, it ditched its on-road marketing efforts and took to the digital highway.
Now just weeks into its launch, the online strategy produced by Tulsa-based advertising agency Gitwit accentuates MAIP’s many positives, includin...
Housed on three floors in the Petroleum Club building, local digital media company ConsumerAffairs was seeking a way to level the work environment.
It found it in a historic renovation.
Eye-catching and massive, the firm’s new environs are a $13.2 million, 44,253-square-foot redevelopment of four buildings in the 600 block of Eas...
The Tulsa Regional Chamber released today the results of an analysis of the region’s dislocated workforce. This comprehensive study and roadmap for recovery will help business and civic leaders better understand the outlook for workers dislocated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which skill sets are available in the regional talent pipeline...
The Tulsa Regional Chamber announced today the hiring of Arthur Jackson as senior vice president of economic development, effective Feb. 22. Jackson will lead the Chamber’s economic development efforts through Tulsa’s Future, the Chamber-led public-private regional economic development partnership. Jackson will also be responsible for workforce and talent strategies, suc...
TULSA, Okla. — Sparks of ingenuity, state of the art facilities, and a manufacturer on a mission to work faster, smarter and safer are what's at work inside the walls of Vacuworx.
"It really is about taking care of people," Bill Solomon, CEO of Vacuworx, said. "We've always been about ho...
New Statewide Economic Development Organization
Feb 10 2021OKLAHOMA – Economic developers from across Oklahoma convened this week to form a new corporation, Select Oklahoma an Economic Development Partnership, Inc. The new organization takes the place of the Oklahoma Professional Economic Development Council (OEDC) and the Governor's Economic Development Marketing Team (GEDMT). Job one of Select Oklahoma i...
Building on a river of opportunities
Jan 29 2021Commuters, and occasionally a semi-truck, woosh and hum across a bridge over the Verdigris River on Route 66 between Catoosa and Claremore. Along the west side of the bridge, a train pulls 50 railcars loaded with coal and other materials.
Below, a towboat quietly pushes 12 hopper barges of grain &mdash...
Always out to broaden its network, Tulsa’s Young Professionals is an organization heavily dependent on mingling.
So in quarantine-dominated 2020, it was among countless groups that had to re-invent itself.
“For an organization predicated on gathering people for a purpose, not being able to gather people was a significant challenge,” said Davi...
Tulsa’s Future, the public-private regional economic development partnership led by the Tulsa Regional Chamber, will mark the completion of the third five-year phase of its economic development plan at the end of December. Since 2016, Tulsa’s Future has supported the creation of 16,704 jobs and more than $1.9 billion o...
PAWHUSKA — The Osage Nation displayed how it spent about $13 million, dedicating facilities aimed at providing food security for the tribe.
Unveiled were a 42,000-square-foot greenhouse and a 44,000-square-foot programs building, which includes aquaponics and food processing areas.
The investment came via the CARES (Coronavirus Assistance, Relief and Economic Security) Act...
Applications are now available to assist small businesses with funding for export promotion and training through the State Trade Export Promotion Grant (STEP) program administered by the U.S. Small Business Administration. The Oklahoma Department of Commerce has been awarded $326,800 in STEP grant funding which will be used to provid...
A native Tulsan has been selected to Forbes magazine’s 30 under 30 list, which recognizes the brightest young entrepreneurs in the country.
Will Edwards, a graduate of Cascia Hall and the University of Arkansas, is CEO and co-founder of Melbourne, Florida-based Firehawk Aerospace company.
Chosen in the manufacturing and industry category, Edwards, 27...
Sean Kouplen, Oklahoma Secretary of Commerce & Workforce Development, alongside members of the Governor’s Council for Workforce and Economic Development and industry leaders, announced today the certification of nine Centers for Workforce Excellence (CWE) under the Oklahoma Works Together program.
“Governor Stitt has worked to implement his ‘Oklahoma Turnaround’ initiatives i...
Best Cities to Buy a House During COVID-19
Nov 20 2020As of July 2020, only four months into the pandemic, the Pew Research Center found that approximately 20% of Americans had moved due to COVID-19 concerns. Buying a house during a global health crisis may not have been one of your New Year's resolutions, but then again, 2020 has brought many surprises...
